The Common Reader

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Very interesting read - By: PhilosopherKing, 25 Nov 2008
I purchased both volumes of the 'Common Reader' & I probably read about half to three quarters of the essays contained in both volumes.

Virginia Woolf displays a remarkable range of biographical, historical, literary & philosophical knowledge. It is amazing that anyone can ever read so much - & criticallly & cerefully too. She must have turned over several libraries.

I enjoyed the essays on the Greeks & her remarks on Homer as well as her discussions about the English Middle Ages. She had interesting things to say about Montaigne, George Eliot, the great Russian novelists & many other topics.

I had only just recently read Robinson Crusoe & I had reread Moll Flanders about a year or two ago (I had read it when I was a young man) & Virginia Woolf's insightful essay on Daniel Defoe encouraged me to order some of his other works. Altogether an interesting read. There were some other books by other authors that I ordered too following from reading Virginia Woolf's essays.

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